I wonder what Annex will be like. What, instead of curb stomping downed enemies, do you revive them and make them your teammates?

Supposedly the update is coming April 9th. Here is some more info that was taken down from Epic's web page.

Annex

Objective: Capture and hold key locations to collect enough points to win the round.

Description: In Annex, you win by keeping control over key map locations, or objectives, long enough to collect a winning number of points. Every map has two to five identified objectives available for capture, with one objective active at a time. Objectives are based on map weapon-spawn locations and have a potential value of 60 points toward either team’s score. Teams collect those points by maintaining ownership of an objective until all its 60 points have been distributed. Every second that a team controls an objective, the team gets one point. When an objective falls to zero points, the next objective is selected at random.

On the HUD, the current objective appears below the team scores at top left. This indicator contains several pieces of relevant information. The weapon icon inside the circle indicates which weapon-spawn location is being used as the objective. The compass along the outer edge of the circle shows the relative direction to the objective. The number inside the circle indicates how many points remain at that objective and the background icon color indicates which team currently controls it. No color means the objective awaits capture, a red icon means the Locust Horde hold the objective and a blue icon means the COG hold it. When the icon in the indicator circle fills, the corresponding team's score also changes color, the team begins collecting points from the objective, and the point value of the objective drops.

On the map, a projected ring marks the physical location and boundaries of the objective in the world. The ring's color indicates the current captor: White means neutral, blue COG, and red Locust. To capture an objective, players must stand inside the glowing ring uncontested for a short period of time. How long depends on how many teammates stand in the ring at once. One player can capture an objective in eight seconds, two players in four seconds, three players in two seconds, and four players in one second. Once a team takes an objective, they are not required to remain inside the ring to maintain ownership. The captured objective's points drain until an opposing team member enters the ring, or until its points fall to zero.

Round scores can be set as low as 120 points or as high as 480 points. The first team to reach the target score wins the round.

Respawns: Infinite, wave-based every 15 seconds.

Options:

* Selected Map: Which map or series of maps to use.
* Number of Rounds: Number of rounds required to win the match.
* Bleed-out Duration: Amount of time before a player dies while DBNO.
* Round Score: Number of points required to win a round.
* Friendly Fire: In a player match, whether teammates can damage each other.
* Private Slots: In a player match, number of player slots reserved for friend invites.
* Weapons Swapped: In a player match, whether the person who sets up the match can determine whether weapons that appear in the maps are replaced or removed.

Updates:

* Annex became available as a Gears of War multiplayer game mode in the April 9 update.

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Assassination

Updates:

* Before the update, the Assassination leader had to unlock map-spawned weapons by picking them up and dropping them. Now, all weapons are available to all players from the beginning.
* Before the update, you could kill a leader in Assassination using the same rules as in Warzone. Now, you kill leaders as in Execution.

Am I the only one who is not that excited about this?

Probably

I'm actually kindof looking forward to trying the new gametype out. Hopefully they've also fixed some glaring bugs that'll make the game have fewer BS moments.

Indeed. If I am better than a noob who thinks blind-firing with the Lancer will get him a headshot, then I want to be consistently better and not let him get the advantage over me by exploiting some silly glitch.

I really need to sell my copy of GoW.

I probably should, too, while it's still hot.

Is your gamertag on live LOA Oculus

No, more along the lines of LOL Oculus, or WTF Oculus. I considered BAMF Oculus, but figured that was evident in my gameplay, therefore didn't need to be stressed.

for some reason I think I remember you smellysocks in a game yesterday in Shadowrun beta.. is that right? welcome to THX.

OMG Oculus?

Although the comment was deleted. Here is my reply, it didn't have anything to do with the troll anyways.

There has lots of talk about a Blogger's Code of Conduct recently:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/draft_bloggers_1.html
http://blogging.wikia.com/wiki/Blogger%27s_Code_of_Conduct

Maybe you should institute number 5.

"5. We do not allow anonymous comments.

We require commenters to supply a valid email address before they can post, though we allow commenters to identify themselves with an alias, rather than their real name."

Just a suggestion.

Personally I feel that is an excellent suggestion. It's the rare forum that I visit that doesn't have rules posted, and require and account to actively participate.

We've had this discussion in the past after hack attempts and whatnot. I think the group consensus is that unless/until something gets out of hand, we want it to be as easy as possible for people to participate. As things stand now, we have a large number of lurkers and relatively few posters.

- Brick

hey guys if ya wnna add me or fite me in gears of war just add my accont its SoS xSHOTGNERx thx well than just add me then will have a match!!

Xray will pwn you in a fair fite.

Ya gul

o man its Xray watch out he pwn me in phair fite

okey pokey i played this new gametype it is cool. ha ha but i have never had a game change so much from 1 patch the shotgun is weaker the chainsaw it is like it has a vacume on it boom kan down you with 1 shot i think that is BS so new patch is POS

Thank you for your well-thought-out and educated opinion on the patch.